Customizing OER books on LibreTexts

Fei Ye

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Getting Started

Features of LibreTexts

Features of LibreTexts.org

https://libretexts.org/

Advanced Futures

  • Embedded multimedia

  • Dynamic Figures

  • Jupyter code embeds

  • Hypothes.is annotation overlays

  • Print on demand

  • Complete Printed Version

  • One Minute Import into LMS

Resources

A workflow

  • Planning: create a list of section that you will need for the customized book.

  • Building the Remix Map on LibreTexts using the OER Remixer

  • Publish

  • Edit/Reremix and republish

For detailed information, please read “How to Make a LibreTexts Remix”.

Planning

Gather info and organize your remix

Create a table (using Excel) that contains the following info: new book title, new chapter numbers and titles, new section numbers and titles, source section numbers and titles, source book.

Planning Remix using Excel

Building Remix

Create an account and log in

  • Contact LibreTexts to request an instructor account in a specific library

  • Go the the LibreTexts library that you have an instructor account and log in.

Log in LibreTexts Library

Locate the remixer

The Remixer can be found in Tools on the left side navigation panel.

Locate Remixer in Tools

Set remixer options

Enter the title and choose remixer option(s). The default option works fine.

Set Remixer Options

Locate source contents

You may choose contents that you will use for all libraries of LibreTexts.

Library Panel

Create a remix map

A remix map can be created by dragging sections/chapters from the library panel to dropping them to the remixer panel. Chapter and section titles can be renamed by double clicking them.

Creating Contents by drag-and-drop

Rearrange and edit

Rearrange can be done by drag-and-drop. Tools for editing chapters and pages are located right above the remixer panel.

Editing Pages

Publish your Remix

Save to server

  • Click the Save to Server Button. Save to Server Button
  • Review and save to server. Review the publishing summary and content

Review the published book

At the bottom of the remixer panel, you will find the link to the published book.

Log of the publishing process

Edit Published Remix

Sandbox

Before being moved to a college hub, a published remix can be located in the sandbox of your account.

Sandbox under account

Locate the published book

Published books can be found in the personal sandbox.

Location of personal sandbox in LibreTexts

Edit or reremix a book

To edit or reremix a book in the sandbox, go to the remixer and switch it to the Edit Remix Mode.

Edit remix mode

Find the remixed book to edit or reremix

Once the remixer is in the edit mode, you see the sandbox in the library panel.

Sandbox in library panel

Select and load the book to the Remixer

A selected book can be loaded to the Remixer by clicking the REREMIX SELECTION button.

Reremix and republish the book

The book can be reremixed and republished as before.

Reremix and publish

Move the book to a campus hub

To make the remix book public, you need to contact info@libretexts.org to move it to a Campus Hub. If a campus hub doesnot exist, you may ask them to create one.

Modify, Develop and Integrate

Modify contents

  • Open the page (section) that you want to modify.

  • Fork the page.
    Fork a page

  • Click Edit button to modify.
    The edit page button

  • Click Save to save the modification.
    The save button of the editor

Workflows of developing a book

This image was taken from “Harvesting Workflows” by LibreTexts which is licensed under CC BY.

Harvest your books

Suppose contents and a skeleton remix map were created. Then you can use copy-and-paste to add contents to pages. See “A Harvesting Checklist.” 2020. August 16, 2020. https://chem.libretexts.org/@go/page/148794 for details.

OER integration

If you found an OER book that is not available on Libretexts, you may fill out an integration request.

LMS Integration

Integrate a book into Blackboard

LibreTexts provides common cartriges for integration into a learning management system (LMS).

Download the cartrige for integration

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